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Posted 2026-10-26#4984 · Permanent link ↗

Describes the family's financial and social restrictions, headaches, brain fog and palpitations attribute…

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am not exaggerating when I say that cell towers, cell phones, wi-fi, etc. are ruining the quality of my life. Our adult son is so debilitated by EMFs he cannot work or even socialize with people who carry cell phones, which is everyone. He cannot get disability coverage for this disability, so my husband and I are supporting him with our dwindling retirement money and part-time jobs. We've already moved once to get away from cell towers, but they are EVERYWHERE. I am a 73-year-old retired dietitian, in excellent health, take no medications, 90% of my diet is organic, pasture raised, and grass-fed.  Our home has a landline phone, no satellite dishes for years, and we've never had Wi-Fi.  I own a cell phone but only turn it on when I need to use it. My debilitating issues (headaches, severe brain fog, heart palpitations) with cell phones and cell towers began as we all emerged from the covid lockdown.  I'd heard rumors that telecom companies would be taking advantage of fewer people on the streets to begin putting up a large number of cell towers. I thought this was silly because they seemed to have carte blanche to put cell towers up wherever and whenever they chose.  I've since learned to pay more attention to "rumors". My first major hit from a new cell tower was in the parking lot of our local Loveland, Colorado county building when I went in to register a new car. I had been to this building many times in prior years and had no issues.  On this day as I walked across the parking lot to the building, I quickly developed a crushing headache.  I'm not a person who gets headaches.  Later, as I left the building and got in my car, I looked up to see a huge, new cell tower that wasn't there the year before.  It's so powerful that I can no longer drive along that road without getting a headache. That was the beginning of my very restricted, and not-feeling-well life because of cell towers and other people's cell phones. Last year we moved to a smaller town nearby that we had visited often in the past thinking we would get some relief. It's WORSE because it's the tourist town of Estes Park, Colorado and they did their own maximizing of cell towers to "enhance" the visitor experience. Following is a list of places I can no longer go both in Loveland and Estes Park Colorado. We also have friends in the cities of Fort Collins and Longmont which are also EMF'd to the max. - Library - Estes Park and Loveland - Restaurants/coffee houses, theatres (usually because of the other patron's cell phones) - Quilt shop (on the second floor of a bank with a cell tower attached to the outer wall) - Also the quilt shop in Loveland - Quilters Guild meetings (in a church with a cell tower in the parking lot) - Musical festivals and events the town's park because of a looming cell tower. - A friend's home in Ft. Collins because they live next to a high school with TWO towers. (She is constantly sick) - The two hospitals in Loveland and one in Estes Park are so EMF'd I cannot drive by without getting a headache and heart palpitations. I had to cut short a hospital visit with a friend because I thought I would pass out. I used to work in a hospital so it's not fear of hospitals. - My favorite walking trail in Loveland. - Estes Park schools (elementary, jr. high, and high school) are in a section of town where I cannot drive down the street because I get headaches and heart palpitations. - Both the Loveland and Estes Park community centers - Estes Park fairgrounds - I cannot drive on highway 36 between Estes Park and Longmont/Boulder because of the cylindrical towers every 1/2 mile. - While stopped at the newer traffic lights my hands cramp on the steering wheel. Cramping goes away when I'm about a block away from the intersection. - A friend just moved to Greeley, Colorado and it's difficult to visit because the drive starting from I-25 along highway 34 to Greeley is littered with cell towers and stuff on the traffic light poles. By the time I reach her lovely EMF free home, I'm so sick it's hardly worth it. - Before applying for a job or planning to go ANYWHERE I need to visit first to see if I can tolerate the EMF level. My current temp job is about to end and I'm terrified that I won't be able to find a job environment that won't make me sick. Tomorrow my son and I are going to venture into town to see if there is any EMF activity at the new indoor carousel because I'd like to take my granddaughter later this week. I am so grateful to this administration's HHS and its attention to the EMF problem. EMFs are getting worse every year. We are considering moving to another town, but we can't afford to move again AND I'm sure there will be towers and people with their super powerful cell phones in line behind me at the grocery store.
Posted 2026-10-26#4983 · Permanent link ↗

Reports EMF sensitivity and symptoms in a smart-meter-equipped home, displacement to other housing, and a…

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I am extremely sensitive to EMF fields. Since moving to a new home with a smart meter, I’ve had to live in people’s basements that don’t have them. It’s the only way I feel good. When I’m in my home I get headaches, dizziness, nausea, and eventually my muscles feel very weak. It’s hard to stand, and I have an overall feeling of sickness. I am a career woman. I work very hard. I enjoy supporting myself and my children. I fear my future and my health. I’d like to feel good in my home and be able to work and look forward to the future. I beg that there be some kind of parameters around certain electromagnetic fields that are stronger and can have serious declining health, risks. I have asked my gas and electric company to remove the smart meter and put an old-school analog reader on it and I will pay the extra monthly fee for them to read it and they have declined. Please help.
Posted 2026-10-26#4974 · Permanent link ↗

Recounts an alleged directed-energy injury, continuing health problems and unsuccessful efforts to obtain…

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Targeted Justice, RFK Jr. Request for Information on Electromagnetic fields, Radiofrequency Radiation, and wireless radiation exposure. I am writing to document my individual Directed Energy experience in the summer of 1985. An individual in the Denver Colorado State Department and Colorado Bureau of Investigation along with my older brother Don Conner and a CBI Unit he ran with doing drug busts. It’s really pretty bad. He was busting friends that he grew up with in the North Denver Mob. He was gang stalking them way beyond the law. He would tell me that rape, murder, shooting them in the back, we’re talking about friends and family that they were actually chasing. I wouldn’t shut up, I ended up with a Directed Energy laser shot to the left side of my head. The State Department told me later that I fought Don and he wanted me dead. I was on my way home around noon coming from the store in my truck, turning right at a large intersection, seeing across the intersection several girls, one with a gun on top of their car making a Right turn suddenly seeing a bright white laser light shooting across the street directly burning into my left ear, melting my inner ear, horrible pain, then the girl screamed angerily that I was GPS’d forever, as they took off the opposite direction. The very beginning of a very painful life. I was not allowed a Doctor. I went to my minster after my mom died, no help. Therapist, no help, 1986 I lost my whole family. During Covid 2020 I went to Florida trying to get an appointment to see Dr. Michael E. Hoffer, his office closed just as I got down there. I ended up finding a room to rent in Tallahassee, went to a Dr. Greg Perry, 1407 MD Lane, STE B Tallahassee Florida, 32308 850-942-5775 for a referral to see Dr. Michael E. Hoffer his office still closed. Sarah Chipps-Walton APRN convinced me to see specialist there. Dr. Danny Estupinan M.D. M.S. adult neurology TNC Brain & Spine, Professional Office Building, Suite 600, 1401 Centerville Rd, Tallahassee, Florida 32308. 850-878-8121, Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic-2110 Centerville Rd. Suite A, Tallahassee, Florida, 32308, 850-219-1920, service date 11/12/2020 I came home to Denver, Colorado hopefully For the rest of my life, and this last year I went to a Optum Provider, Katie Stefani, 4500 E.9th ave, 720-774-6266, she sent me to Advanced Neurology, Alexander Feldman M.D., 1601 E. 19th ave. #4400, Denver, Colorado 303-863-0501, www.neurology Colorado.com, I saw Kate Kraus, nurse practitioner, I Was told he couldn’t do anything for me and helped me with two referrals. Dr. Michael E. Hoffer, who I found wasn’t seeing civilian Havana Syndrome patients any longer, and Dr. James Giordano who on a podcast informed people he would take referrals, but I Couldn’t get a call back. Thank You very Sincerely for this opportunity to reach out, my name is Susan Byers
Posted 2026-10-26#4970 · Permanent link ↗

Reports serious health effects attributed to rooftop towers and evacuation from a longtime apartment; ref…

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Attached is testimony recounting my experience suffering serious adverse health effects, due to prolonged, intensified, and excessive exposure to cell phone towers over the apartment where I lived for 30 years in Washington DC (and was hence forced to evacuate). Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

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Posted 2026-10-26#4960 · Permanent link ↗

Reports illness with smartphones, workplace Wi-Fi and 5G, describing inability to work, shop or visit oth…

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In 2011 I bought my first iPhone. I began to feel very ill. When I put the phone down I felt better. I got rid of the phone. I lived my life only being able to use technology in limited ways but it was manageable. In 2019 my workplace updated their WiFi throughout the building and I was no longer able to be inside the building. In 2020 as most 5G was installed, it was the drop that tipped the bucket for the radiation exposure my body could handle and I am no longer able to use a computer, go inside any public buildings with WiFi, homes with WiFi, cars with Bluetooth or be in the vicinity of any type of cell tower. My life is severely limited due to the sea of non-ionizing radiation we live in each day. I cannot work, go shopping, or visit friends or family without severe radiation sickness
Posted 2026-10-26#4957 · Permanent link ↗

Reports decades of electrosensitivity, occupational and environmental exposures, prolonged sick leave and…

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I am now 62 years old and have been electrosensitive since I was 28, more than half my life. In Sweden, this is silenced, doctors who want to help us get into trouble (for example, with their medical licenses revoked). I don't feel like you get any help. I worked as a computer technician with a great interest in electronics. When I became electrosensitive. When I was working around 1990, I got an NMT mobile phone installed in my car. NMT was a big problem. I became sensitive to all electronics and solvents, etc. I was on sick leave for 17 years. Then I had to start working in gardening and as a school janitor. I got an ABC 80 computer early on, which I used to program a lot. Before I got sick, my mouth was full of amalgam. I lived in an apartment with a printing shop underneath for a few years, and the apartment sometimes smelled of glue. I did my military service on a robot boat with asbestos insulation. And was exposed to a lot of radar. I tanned in a solarium and had a waterbed with sky-high electric fields. For a while, I may have had a mobile antenna outside my office where I worked on the outside of the house. When I was programming in my youth, it sometimes happened that my brain would shut down (mental standstill. Before it broke out, I turned down the brightness on the TV. (contrast) I had a cordless phone in the house where I worked. Someone had it before me and got sick. I don't know what it was from. When I got sick, it was during a course with a lot of computers. It was way too much. I was very sensitive to regular wired phones, which we ended up with. I have a cell phone now but always use the speaker function. I now take antidepressants that dampen the sensitivity. I feel less sensitive to radar and wifi and cell phones today. It was a good thing that NMT was discontinued. I have the most sensitivity to power lines now, apart from all kinds of solvents. It was probably a good thing that they removed the lead in gasoline. I avoid cell phone towers as much as possible and exposing myself to too much. There is a lot more I could cover, but this will have to do. Lennart Ohs Lennart.aahs@gmail.com Stockholm Sweden
Posted 2026-10-26#4945 · Permanent link ↗

A subsidized-housing resident reports RF exposure and relief after shielding, alleges unequal shielding p…

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207 mW/cm² RF Exposure 24/7 on Elderly (See the attached PDF) October 20, 2026 Margarette Lisa Long 600 Coffman St. #220 Longmont, CO 80501 541-631-8907 Subject: Unequal Protection from RF Radiation in Longmont, CO Dear FCC and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Thank you for addressing this important manner to protect humanities health. Why do other countries protect the health of their citizens more than our great country? I am a resident of The Village on Main, a federally subsidized low-income housing complex in Longmont, Colorado. Our building is located directly across from a cell tower and experiences continuous radio frequency (RF) exposure, measured indoors at approximately 20.7 µW/cm², 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Through my research, I have discovered that government and civic buildings in the same area have been shielded from RF exposure (shown in green on the attached map), while residential and low-income housing buildings remain unshielded (shown in red), despite being much closer to the towers. This raises serious health and environmental justice concerns: Low-income, elderly, and disabled residents are left disproportionately exposed while protections are provided to government employees. The exposure in my building exceeds Russia’s national safety limit of 10 µW/cm² and is significantly above precautionary limits in other countries. The 2021 D.C. Circuit Court ruling (EHT v. FCC) found that the FCC failed to adequately review health impacts of chronic, low-level RF exposure, underscoring the need for state-level action. I respectfully request: The US adopts the precautionary principle including non-thermal effects standards like China, Italy, Poland, Russia and Eastern Europe of safety limit of 10 µW/cm² max. Also: An investigation into this unequal application of shielding protections. Equitable RF protections for residents of federally subsidized housing. Development of state-level RF exposure guidance that prioritizes vulnerable populations. Shielding technology already exists and has been applied — it must be applied equitably. Residents should not be treated as second-class citizens when it comes to health protections. After moving in here I woke up everyday for 6 months feeling every cell in my body aching. I shielded my apartment and that feeling when away immediately. I live next to many elderly in their 80’s and 90’s. They don’t have the resources or time and energy to shield their units. This is a crime on humanity. Thank you for your urgent attention to this matter. Neurobehavioral Effects Among Inhabitants Around Mobile Phone Base Stations. Abdel-Rassoul, G., et al. NeuroToxicology 28(2):434-440. (2007). Sincerely, Margarette Lisa Long WE LIVE HERE 24/7 >>>>>>> Regulatory limits are based on time-averaged exposure (commonly a 6-minute average).

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Posted 2026-10-26#4917 · Permanent link ↗

Reports symptoms beginning at age 14 near wireless devices, relocation after 5G deployment, and continuin…

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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a patient. I have been affected by wireless radiation such as wifi routers, cellphones, and celltowers since 2019 starting at 14 years old. My symptoms include headaches, fatigue, joint pain, heartbeat irregularities, shaking, balance problems, severe brain-fog to the point of losing the ability to speak and understand language, and widespread pain. These symptoms increased in severity the longer and more often I was in proximity to wireless radiation such as cellphones or buildings with active wifi routers or hotspots. Additionally, the longer I was exposed to wireless radiation the longer it took my body to recover enough to handle being exposed again. I was already homeschooled, which allowed me to control the environment I was in most of the day, but I had to drop out of any extra-curricular programs that were held inside a building as well as limit my time in public places due to wifi and cellphone exposure. In 2020, 5G towers started to be put up in my neighborhood in Chicago and I discovered that these towers hurt me to the extent that walking past one would keep me housebound and incapable of doing much besides laying still for the next 24 hours. My family was forced to move away from the city as more and more 5G towers were put up, limiting the places I could go. Currently, I live with my parents in a completely wired house, keep my phone on airplane mode whenever it is on my person, and continue to be severely limited in activities and outings due to symptoms from wireless radiation. I am unable to have an in-person job in any building with wifi and neither can I do any service such as jury duty. I am nearly housebound; Going to the grocery store, to church, to friend’s houses, or virtually any indoor public space has to be carefully planned and my exposure time limited to an hour maximum in order for me to be able to heal within 36 hours. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.
Posted 2026-10-26#4906 · Permanent link ↗

Alleges prolonged signal-based harassment and surveillance, describes physical symptoms and disrupted liv…

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For several years I have been experiencing illegal communications via some type of signal coming into my home that interacts with me personally, and no one else in my vicinity seems to be aware of these signals as they happen. These people have also communicated with me anonymously through chats, forums, and posts on X. I am aware of this due to the nature of what they speak about. Years ago, at least two of the perpetrators of these crimes moved in next door to my previous address. I could feel energy and hear them speaking as though they were inside my room. When I looked out my backdoor, I could then see them using handheld devices that are about the size of a cellphone. I cannot identify the devices because they were too far away, but I am aware that a website sells devices that are marketed, even on well known online retail sites, to harass and nauseate neighbors using frequencies. That website also sells items that a criminal might use to impersonate the police. I could hear their dialogue vaguely from a distance and realized that they were saying the same repetitive things that I could hear while out of earshot, which seem to be directed to my head. They speak of human sex auctions and obeying guardianship arrangements in what they referred to as a "kingdom." They have promised me a lot of money. They have also interrogated me with questions and all sorts of pervasive ideas. I find it very alarming that one of these people looks very much like the woman who brought the second COVID shot to the table at the County Fair grounds, where vaccines were being administered. She dropped the vial and acted like she was trying to catch it in her white coat, almost as if playfully juggling it while laughing, then a vial fell to the floor. She picked it up, and the other woman administered the shot. Shortly after leaving, I knew something was wrong. I am certain I almost died of a heart attack that night but was terrified to go to the hospital due to fears of being quarantined and having unwanted treatments forced upon me. The next day I was a total wreck and a full cascade of residual effects began, including muscle weakness, heart palpitations, rapidly worsening vision, hot flashes, and many more symptoms that have waxed and gradually waned over the next few years. I remember how the vaccine manufacturers were given immunity from lawsuits and I felt totally helpless, depending upon only myself and my knowledge for recuperation. Back to the issue of wireless surveillance, monitoring, and frequency interactions with my body- I have suffered daily every day for several years from these assaults, and in my current neighborhood there are people around who work for the hospital who exhibit strange behavior, in my opinion. I live in constant fear. The people operating the signals speak often to me about hospitals. They tell me I have cancer. They say "HEART ATTACK" very often, multiple times a day. They say they infected me with something. They tell me to kill myself. I try to ignore them, but at times I feel compelled to vent this torturous enraging energy, so at times I speak or yell back to them. They can hear me. It is my impression that they are attempting to exert guardianship over me in a medical or psychological kidnapping. They have spoken of me going somewhere with them. They threaten my family members. There seems to be a small faint current that crawls all over my skin and even private areas, as they speak perverted things to me. They demand an answer that I will agree to sign an NDA. I adamantly refuse. They insist we are friends. I do not know them and do not want to. We are not friends. My neighbors had been trying to lure me next door in an effort to make that statement true. They offered me heroin in a chat that I would never accept. They claimed to know some of the world biggest celebrities. They claimed to be affiliated with band members and family members of well known bands. They claimed to have been monitoring me for decades as their spoiled children grew up and gave their children access to remote surveillance in order to monitor potential girlfriends and potential artists. One of them acts like an entertainment secret contract enforcer. They have tried to kill me multiple times, mostly with remote palpitations because I am taking no more vaccines, I am seeking no help through novel pharmaceuticals, and I try to stay as far away from these people as I can and only make short trips to stores or other places I need to go. They have directly affected my livelihood and my well-being. They interfere with relationships. I am aware that remote health applications can be used for good and also for great evil. I see the failure to address this issue by appropriate authorities as one of the greatest failures in United States history. I am not under investigation, have done nothing to warrant this treatment, and find this situation a travesty of justice and an abomination of human morality.
Posted 2026-10-26#4902 · Permanent link ↗

Reports sleep problems, headaches and agitation after nearby facilities were energized while explicitly w…

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Public Comment on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Exposure Docket No. HHS-OASH-2026-0397 I urge the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support independent research into potential health effects of long-term, real-world electromagnetic field (EMF) and radiofrequency (RF) exposure, take reports of symptoms seriously, and identify practical ways to reduce unnecessary exposure while scientific questions remain unresolved. Personal Experience and Residential Exposure I live in San Mateo, California, within approximately 500 feet of two Crown Castle wireless facilities. The City of San Mateo Public Works Department confirmed that the facility at 239–249 Elm Street (permit WC-2023-000082) was issued a permit on May 19, 2023, and the facility at 200 N. San Mateo Drive, on Monte Diablo Avenue (permit WC-2023-000127), was issued a permit on June 16, 2023. Both facilities completed construction, passed City inspection, and received final signoff. I noticed increased sleep problems, headaches, and physical agitation when the facilities were energized. By physical agitation, I do not mean simply worry or anxious thoughts. I mean feeling physically unsettled, keyed up, and unable to fully relax. I have also noticed less physical agitation when I am away from home. I cannot establish that RF exposure caused these symptoms, and my experience alone cannot prove causation. However, the timing of these changes and the difference I notice when away from home concern me. My home should be a place where I can rest comfortably, yet I have become concerned about how I feel in my own residential environment. I cannot readily control the presence or operation of nearby wireless infrastructure. I share this experience not as proof of causation, but because firsthand reports can help identify questions that warrant scientific investigation. Research and Public Health HHS should prioritize independent, rigorous research into potential non-cancer effects of long-term, repeated, real-world RF and EMF exposure. Research should examine possible effects on sleep, headaches, neurological and other physiological functions, and overall well-being. It should consider prolonged exposure under everyday conditions, not just short-term exposure scenarios. HHS should transparently assess the strengths and limitations of existing studies, including conflicting findings, identify gaps in the evidence, and determine what additional research is needed. Research should investigate possible biological mechanisms and whether certain populations, including children, may be more vulnerable. People reporting symptoms they associate with RF or EMF exposure should neither be dismissed because causation is uncertain nor assumed to have established causation. Researchers should consider symptom patterns, exposure circumstances, timing, changes when circumstances change, and other possible contributing factors. These observations can help generate testable hypotheses. Medical Evaluation, Disability, and Accessibility HHS should distinguish between recognizing symptoms and functional limitations, investigating possible medical causes, and addressing accessibility barriers. These are related but distinct issues. An approach focused only on accommodating functional limitations risks leaving questions about possible biological or medical causes unanswered. People whose symptoms affect sleep, daily activities, or quality of life deserve both practical consideration and serious scientific investigation. Recommendations I respectfully ask HHS to: Support independent research into potential non-cancer effects of long-term, real-world EMF and RF exposure. Identify research gaps and prioritize investigation of sleep, neurological and physiological effects, and potentially vulnerable populations. Develop balanced ways to document and investigate reported symptoms without assuming or dismissing causation. Evaluate practical ways to reduce unnecessary exposure in homes, schools, and communities, including wired alternatives where feasible. Communicate clearly about established findings, conflicting evidence, and remaining uncertainties. Ensure that investigating possible medical causes is not displaced by an approach focused solely on accessibility or functional impairment. My purpose is to ensure that the experiences of people who report health concerns associated with wireless infrastructure are considered alongside the broader scientific evidence. I urge HHS to conduct a thorough, independent, and transparent assessment of potential health effects, identify research priorities, and recommend proportionate measures to protect public health while uncertainties remain.

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